Israel Defense Forces Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth recently warned that rising settler violence in the West Bank could spark a Palestinian uprising, according to a Thursday report.

Describing the phenomenon as “Jewish terrorism,” Bluth cautioned that “it’s quite a miracle the Palestinian public is still indifferent… but it won’t remain indifferent forever,” the Haaretz daily reported, citing remarks he made in a closed forum on an unspecified date.

Bluth reportedly said he recently warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet that though overall Palestinian terror levels are low, tensions are building beneath the surface, while advising on measures to lower tensions such as allowing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has held up.

“The coffee brewing is a good coffee – the level of terrorism is at its lowest – but there’s a constant simmer and we don’t know where it will spill over. And when it spills over, it spills quickly,” he was quoted as saying.

Bluth also reportedly pointed to a direct link between settler attacks and Palestinian violence, saying, “We know today of people [Palestinians] who were harmed in ‘price tag’ attacks and immediately afterward went out to carry out an attack.”

The term “price tag” is used by extremist Jews to describe attacks carried out against Palestinians, the military, and other targets as retribution for Israeli government decisions they perceive as being oriented against........

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